Method of making door plates and xxsighs



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EDMUNDMORRIS, `OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

METHOD OF MAKING DOOR PLATES AND OF SEPARATE TYPES OR LETTERSfspeciacation of Letters Patent No. 3,565, dated Aprii 25, 18,44..

To all whom tlm/ay concern'. i

` Be it known that I, EDMUND Moliets, o the city of Philadelphia, in thecounty of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania,

have invented a new and Improved Mode of Constructing Plates for Doors,Signs, Trunks, and other` `Articles Requiring Marks or Numbers; and I dohereby declare that thefollowing is a full and eXact description.

The nature of my invention consists in the forming of permanent platesor signs out of separate movable letters, the same be` ing secured intwo dilferent` ways; and to enable others skilled in the art to make anduse my invention, I will proceed todescribe its construction andoperation. y

The letters of which Vthe plates or signs are composed, are cast inrelief each on a separate piece of metal (as is represented in theFigure No. l, accompanying this) the said pieceshaving on each end ofthem a rabbet cut out from the same side or face which holds theletter'. These letters are drop ded into a rabbet on the back side of aborder, either plain or ornamental (as shown in Fig. `2) the rabbets onthe letters and borders being made to tit into each other, and the blankspaces before `or `after the letters, or between the words, being filledwith pieces of metal similarly rabbeted, so as to fill up theentirespace between the ends of the border forming the plate or sign.Vhen the letters and blanks have been adjusted `in the order desired, ablock of mahogany or other wood is placed against the back of the plate,and screwed fast to the same, thus keeping the letters and blanks rmlyin their places. This block is then screwed to the door or place whereit is intended to be affixed', in the ordinary way. Gr instead ofthepieces which contain the letters being furnished with rabbets, the lat`ter may be omitted (as shown in Fig. 3) and the letter being droppedinto the rabbet on the back side of the border, if made of the properthinness, the effect will be the same; for in either case the back ofthe letters will come flush with the back of the. plate or border, sothat the ordinary woorden block will keep the whole in their places.

`Another mode of accomplishing' the same result, which I have invented,is as follows- The letters arecast in relief, on a piece beveled at eachend as shown in Fig. 4t). These letters are slid like adovetail, intogrooves cut to lit the beveled ends, said grooves being formed in twobeads attached to a flat piece of metal, (as shown in Fig. 5) the entirepiece, that is Fig. 5, being cast with the beads on it, but the groovesbeing afterwards cut out by a tool made for that purpose. The foursides, or the two sides and two ends ofF ig. 5, are also beveled, andthe whole piece, thus furnished with the desired name, is dropped intothe back side of a plate as shown in Fig. 6) with a hole cut in itscenter, and the hole beveled to fit Fig. The back of the two thus comeflush, and No. 5 is keptin its place by being affixed to the ordinarywooden block used for door plates. The letters when adjusted in Fig. 5,are kept from sliding out at either end, by a border cast in relief onthe edge of the plate (as shown in Fig. 7 the blank pieces of metalextending from the letters, both ways until they touch the embossed orraised border. In both cases, the joints between the letters and blanksare concealed by the ground work being tinted with deep parallel lines.

What I claim as my invention, and desire te secure by Letters Patent,is-

The manner of securing the letters in plates or signs, so to constructboth of the latter out of movable types or letters. y EDMUNI) MORRIS.Vitnesses:

GIDEON LLOYD, IVILLIAM E. LAFFERTY.

